Did you receive many requests from the Traditional Anglican Communion (TAC), who had already split from the Anglican Church in the past?

There are twenty or so priests who put in their request last year. We just had a response from the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith and five of them have been given a ‘nulla osta’. We are now in the process of discerning their vocation to be catholic priests.

Having the ‘nulla osta’ doesn’t guarantee your ordination. Most of them however, did not receive the ‘nulla osta’ for a variety of reasons: some of them have no lay faithful at all, some of them have irregular marriages, some of them have received very little training and were ordained after very short courses.

These TAC priests do not fulfill the necessary requirements. So one of the most important aspects is be that – even those TAC priests who are going to enter the Ordinariate – will be ordained at the end of the process, not at the beginning of it.

I would agree, Rome is the real “tangle”! It has sent double untundras again for quite sometime. But thank God for the British eccentricity, sadly it seems to be a dying breed, however. Hopefully I am wrong, and it might be renewed? And the old Anglican ethos of a certain individualism & freedom might live on, to degree!